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Francis Stanley "Gabby" Gabreski (born Franciszek Stanisław Gabryszewski; January 28, 1919 – January 31, 2002) was a Polish-American career pilot in the United States Air Force who retired as a colonel after 26 years of military service.
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Francis S. "Gabby" Gabreski: USAF Colonel 6.5 (1 Shared) 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing: F-86 Sabre Also claimed 28 kills in World War II. [1] George L. Jones: USAF Lieutenant Colonel 6.5 (1 Shared) 335th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing F-86 Sabre Winton W. Marshall: USAF Major 6.5 (1 Shared)
Johnson was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, on February 21, 1920, the son of an automobile mechanic.In his war memoir, Thunderbolt!, he states that he first developed an interest in military aviation in the summer of 1928, when his father took him to see a United States Army Air Corps barnstorming team, "The Three Musketeers", [1] appearing at Ft. Sill's Post Field.
Gabby Gabreski (1919–2002), Francis Stanley "Gabby" Gabreski was a U.S. Army Air Corps and later U.S. Air Force officer who was a fighter ace in World War II, and again in Korea [121] Stephen R. Gregg (1914–2005), U.S. Army T/Sgt, received the Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...